I've used it for my work with Sun-Earth Connection/Divsion, primarily
as a tool for examining dataset features before exporting isosurface
meshes to a more powerful graphics rendering package. I've used it
under MacOS X, Linux and IRIX.
When you have real 3-D data, which I guess means a model in most of
astrophysics, I find it very useful. You can also script processes
with it using Python to make simple animations. Currently it uses a
bit of a hack to handle time-varying volumetric data.
The biggest headache is trying to get data into the VTK format. I've
got a few python scripts that will construct unstructured grids,
polydata, etc. for some datasets, but the files tend to be huge (I
usually use the text format so I can examine them more carefully).
My $0.02 worth,
Tom
On Dec 2, 2004, at 11:24 PM, Shashikiran Ganesh wrote:
> Has anyone used the MayaVi Data Visualizer http://mayavi.sf.net ? It
> is
> written in python and uses the VTK for graphics and Tkinter for GUI. I
> tried it sometime but it does not support fits format directly so have
> not
> spent much time exploring it with my datasets. The screenshots look
> quite
> impressive. It maybe quite interesting to use with 3D fits images
> (spectral data for example). I guess it is a question of getting VTK
> to
> understand fits.
>> I am just looking into the capabilities of matplotlib...
>> -Shashikiran
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